期刊名称：JPUR : Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research
印刷版ISSN：2158-4044
电子版ISSN：2158-4052
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
出版社：Purdue University
摘要：The 2010 earthquake in Maule, Chile, was the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded, having a moment magnitude of 8.8. Chilean and United States building codes are comparable; therefore, several U.S. organizations sent reconnaissance teams to Chile to document information on the performance of building structures. To support research, to understand what took place in Chile, and to improve U.S. building codes, open access to the information obtained in the field is imperative. To that end, a team at Purdue University is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Applied Technology Council (ATC), and the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) to create a data repository for information obtained from the 2010 Chilean earthquake. The data repository is going to be available online at www.nees.org (the website of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation). The database includes: (1) approximately 25,000 photographs of structural damage from 273 buildings that are being organized, processed, and annotated with keywords; (2) relevant information such as building inventory records, geotechnical data, and GPS coordinates that are being gathered for the database; and (3) ground motion records obtained at strong-motion stations operating in Chile during the earthquake. In sum, this project aims to help engineers further understand building performance during earthquakes and provide information that can be used to improve building codes and design practices
